Give me a Team 7 blueberry pie. And recs, among other things.
I haven’t been on LJ for a month due to personal reasons, but during that time, I’ve been reading. Books, physics guides, doujin, medical texts, wiki pages on Japanese cultures, and fanfiction.
Especially fanfiction.
( Fandom, why so complicated? D: )
Especially fanfiction.
( Fandom, why so complicated? D: )
It doesn't help for me at all that people seem to spend as much time looking for evidence to discredit others' ships than anything else. I mean, that's immature and I don't even know how else to describe it. Like, personally I'm not a big NaruSaku fan. I'm not. It just doesn't appeal to me. But that doesn't mean that it's somehow unjustified as a ship.
If there's one part of Japan that I hate, it's that it tends to be as equally sexist as my own country - even though in widely different ways. :/
Yeah, honestly, I think that you can find sexism in works from pretty much every culture out there, even if it does manifest differently. There are a lot of things in manga that I think are sexist, but there are also a lot of things I see on domestic tv shows that I feel the same way about.
I fail to see why mangakas/society in general need to "perceive" teenage boys/girls in different ways.
Don't even get me started. ...Actually, do. I feel like so much in manga is geared toward showing male readers their "ideal" girls that they're probably not going to meet irl, or else showing female readers how they "ought" to be. It's sexism, but I do think it's also sexism that's influenced strongly by the situation in Japan; I'm hardly an expert or anything but it is my understanding at least that there are issues younger men and women having big differences in their expectations from relationships, so I can't help but feel that a lot of this is basically meant to make teenage boy readers feel better. :/
No, I haven't read Soul Eater.
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